Given name
Micaiah
“who is like (Yahweh)?”
Micaiah is a variant of Micah. One interpretation is “who is like (Yahweh)?.”
Original Hebrewמיכיה
Meaning & origin
What it means
Micaiah is a variant of Micah. One interpretation is “who is like (Yahweh)?.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Micaiah is a biblical name from Hebrew.
From biblical name research
How it developed
From the Hebrew particle mi (מי), “"who?".”
From biblical name research
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Micaiah is a variant of Micah. The history of Micah gives this family its wider story. Micah appears in biblical tradition, giving it a longstanding religious and cultural context.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Micaiah appears in Judges 17:1.
From biblical name research
Micaiah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 4,637
- 3,085 boys · 1,552 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 192 babies
- 2025
- 167
- #1,386 for boys · #4,240 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −7%
- Steady
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 73% boys.
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 133 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,386 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 7.5% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 139 in 2014. It also appeared in 34 birth records for girls in 2025. In 2025, Florida and Texas shared the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (13 each). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,200 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Micaiah’s family of names
Micaiah has a related form in Micah.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Micaiah
- Micaiah John Muller HillBritish mathematician1856–1929
- Dion GloverAmerican basketball player (born 1978)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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